Thinking Got Loud

My Twitter timeline was inundated recently with messages on the birth anniversary of Periyar, who was born on 17 th  September 1879.  The mo...

Urvashi has made a career out of stealing movies from right under the nose of her co-stars.   Khushboo once recounted her experience working...

The happiness, success and clout of his nephew Subbu are cause for much jealousy and resentment for his Uncle ( Delhi Ganesh).   But by all...

I believe that film directors are invariably terrific conversationalists.   The ones that I have had the fortune of meeting in person have g...

I have always maintained that pretty much everything that one needs to learn about life can be found in Randy Pausch’s “The Last Lecture.”  ...

I shall get something out of the way.   No, the takeaway from this write-up is not that there are myriad little pleasures in life that money...

  Prologue It was the Fall of 1998.   My parents and I had just moved to the US after I had completed high school in Chennai.   My Dad’s w...